Occupiers give out Russian passports in Melitopol
Roman Petrenko — Saturday, 11 June 2022, 12:13
On 11 June, the occupiers handed over the first Russian passports to locals in the occupied city of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Details: On 11 June, in the occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian passports were issued to the first locals to receive Russian citizenship.
The Russians organised a ceremony to mark the occasion.
The occupiers do not say how many people came for their passports, although they previously wrote that they had received applications from "more than 70,000 people".
Background: According to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 800,000 residents of the so-called "DPR" [self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic] and "LPR" [self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic] received citizenship of the Russian Federation under
